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I recommend that everyone using WordPress update your Permalinks to a date and name based format. Login to your WordPress Admin and click on the Options tab > Permalinks tab.

You’ll see the following text on the WordPress Permalinks Admin page:

By default WordPress uses web URLs which have question marks and lots of numbers in them, however WordPress offers you the ability to create a custom URL structure for your permalinks and archives. This can improve the aesthetics, usability, and forward-compatibility of your links. A number of tags are available, and here are some examples to get you started.

Click on the date and name based radio button. It will automatically add a custom string of script to the Custom structure box… see it, right below the column of radio buttons? Now click the Update Permalinks Structure button on the lower right. That’s it!

My clients ask me if this will negatively impact their website, search engine ranking, traffic stats, etc. No, do not worry about this. Your old ugly question mark and number links will still work and will lead to their correct pages. WordPress automatically associates your new date and naming scheme with your old pages.

Every WordPress page has an ID. For example, http://www.yourdomain.com/post?id=48. Permalinks simply associates your page ids with a new date and name scheme,… using your blog post titles for the page names, but you can change this anytime.

Benefits to using permalinks:

1. Organizes your pages so that they are more memorable and logical.
2. Search engines will index your titles more easily so you get higher search rankings.

Set-up your permalinks.

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I recommend that everyone using WordPress update your Permalinks to a date and name based format. Login to your WordPress Admin and click on the Options tab > Permalinks tab.

You’ll see the following text on the WordPress Permalinks Admin page:

By default WordPress uses web URLs which have question marks and lots of numbers in them, however WordPress offers you the ability to create a custom URL structure for your permalinks and archives. This can improve the aesthetics, usability, and forward-compatibility of your links. A number of tags are available, and here are some examples to get you started.

Click on the date and name based radio button. It will automatically add a custom string of script to the Custom structure box… see it, right below the column of radio buttons? Now click the Update Permalinks Structure button on the lower right. That’s it!

My clients ask me if this will negatively impact their website, search engine ranking, traffic stats, etc. No, do not worry about this. Your old ugly question mark and number links will still work and will lead to their correct pages. WordPress automatically associates your new date and naming scheme with your old pages.

Every WordPress page has an ID. For example, http://www.yourdomain.com/post?id=48. Permalinks simply associates your page ids with a new date and name scheme,… using your blog post titles for the page names, but you can change this anytime.

Benefits to using permalinks:

1. Organizes your pages so that they are more memorable and logical.
2. Search engines will index your titles more easily so you get higher search rankings.

Set-up your permalinks.

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